TechKnack

So I’ve been working on a 3D graphics project for school, and I’ve come across an inconvenience: while g++, the linux compiler, will happily let you declare a new multi-dimensional array with a variable as the size, Visual Studio (the MicroSoft compiler) complains that such a daunting task is too difficult — “I expect a [...]

I love APIs. They make using web services so much easier.
I’ve been developing an IRC bot as a side project, and three of its functions require the use of web services. It can shorten urls using http://is.gd/, search google, and validate web pages using the W3C’s HTML and CSS validators. Fortunately, and [...]

I know, I updated the site design less than a year ago. I decided I could do better than a fixed-width design built for 800 by 600 resolution displays.
The new layout, also my first WordPress theme (yay), is a bit more flexible. By default, it is full-browser-width, with reasonable space allotted to the [...]

I do a fair amount of torrenting, mostly for TV shows. A college student’s schedule doesn’t always allow for sitting in front of the TV on a certain night during a certain timeslot . Nor does it allow for micromanaging my torrents — making sure I have enough, but not too many, [...]

One thing I’ve learned in running my own blog is that spam-bots really, really like open forms. I’m sure experienced bloggers will smile (and say “that’s all?”) when I say that I get probably no less than 5 spam comments per day. With WordPress, it’s simple to be rid of spam — just [...]